LW  refers to Lightwave which is a 3D modeling/animation program from Newtek. ( like Maya and 3ds studio max) 

Thanks Warlock, downloaded Blender 2.49b, unfortunately it won't run on Mac OS Catalina.  I'll try exporting it from Modeler.  I don't really want to use LW's UV mapper feature, I just need to be able to convert from LWO to OBJ so it can be used with a third party UVMapper such as Headus UV Layout.

I'd like to thank everyone for their assistance with this issue, it is very much appreciated.  I'd also like to give a personal thanks to Wimvdb, who really went out of his way to assist me extensively via email.  :)

A very appreciative and grateful,

• J. Lebron

The wrestling ring is a figure, not a prop.  When I designed it, I initially designed it to load untextured as I included a variety of textures and styles to choose from to apply, including a remove all textures option.  As to why it loads like a black silhouette, (after I tell the dialogue box not to search for NO_MAP) is a bit concerning, it does however become visible "after" I apply a texture to it.  I just found that a bit curious as it didn't do that in earlier versions of Poser (Pre 2012 version).  This entire issue is not so much of a problem as it is an annoyance, and since I am a R'osity vendor, I don't want my customers to have to deal with that annoyance if at all possible. 

Okay, I did as you suggested wimvdb, I no longer get that NO_MAP prompt, however a dialogue box pops up stating the following: Texture could not be loaded. Image map file could not be found, or there is not enough memory to load. After I press OK, the ring loads and it is still pitch black. 

Okay, this file is a figure so I went to the "Characters" subfolder in the Runtime Libraries folder and checked the CR2 file.  There are no entries of NO_MAP in the CR2 file, there are only "" entries. I'm feeling as though I'm missing a step here or am possibly not following the directions properly. 

If it's not too much trouble, how exactly would I go about creating a null file called NO_MAP?

Thanks for the links IsaoShi and wolf359, your help is greatly appreciated.  :)

I've come across that "Runtime-1" situation myself so I know exactly what you're talking about.  Can you elaborate on this dittoGui utility you use? It sounds like something I may be interested in trying.

Thanks.

IsaoShi - Thank you for illustrating that usage with Stuffit, it helped bring to light another problem I was encountering during expanding.  I initially had the content expanding in the Runtime folder, only problem was it was creating a new "surrounding" folder so it was not properly installing, thus not visible in my library.  :)

Kuladen - Thank you for informing me of "The Unarchiver".  It looks to be the equivalent of Winzip on the PC, which is what I was looking for.  

I'll be using all three methods (Stuffit, The Unarchiver and Posers Content Room Install from zip archive) as I prefer to have more than one method of doing things.  :)

Thanks again to all three of you for your help, I really appreciate it.  

-J

 While I'm still very appreciative of Bagginsbill's resolution, if there is also a way to install content via "PC/winzip" manner (where you direct winzip where to unzip the content to) I would greatly appreciate it.  I'm not sure whether or not there is a winzip mac version out there, but if there is a way of doing it with Mac's "Archive" program, I'm all ears.  

I'm currently experimenting with stuffit to see if it'll allow me to do it this way.

Thanks again

-J

 Actually Bagginsbill, that helps.  I was a bit thrown off initially as it defaults to sending it to a "Download" folder (I changed the path to go to the "Poser 8" folder so it would drop into the "Runtime" folder as I usually did on a PC, but that didn't work).  So I tried it again and allowed it to unzip to the default "Download" folder and there it was in my library!

Thanks for help, I really appreciate it.  :)

-J

Thanks for the help and links Mariner, it's greatly appreciated.  :)

First off TrekkieGrrrl, I wasn't snapping at anyone.  IMO the response was laced with a bit of sarcasm and I responded accordingly.  Whether or not it was only he truly knows, if I misinterpreted his response, then he has my sincerest apologies.  My intention IS and ALWAYS was to install the SR1 and hotfix, PhilC just happened to address my issue before I got around to it. 

As for your provocative and unnecessarily inane "whining" comment, it's not even worth the effort of a response.  Regardless, you have yourself a nice day.

Bagginsbill,  no need to debug as PhilC immediately identified and helped resolve the problem.

Thanks however for taking the time to state the obvious.

Thanks so much PhilC, you have been extemely helpful in explaining this to me and I really appreciate it.  :)